Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines, Volume 3James Nisbet and Company, 1858 - Christian literature, English |
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... less an erudition like Lightfoot and Pocock , and , least of all , a fervour like Baxter and the hated Puritans ; but of all these desirable attributes , or of others equivalent , he possessed a share so respectable that , turned to the ...
... less an erudition like Lightfoot and Pocock , and , least of all , a fervour like Baxter and the hated Puritans ; but of all these desirable attributes , or of others equivalent , he possessed a share so respectable that , turned to the ...
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... less liberal in denouncing God's curses upon their enemies , than in engross- ing His blessings to themselves : there being none of those reverend harpies , who , by plunders and sequestrations , had scraped together three or four ...
... less liberal in denouncing God's curses upon their enemies , than in engross- ing His blessings to themselves : there being none of those reverend harpies , who , by plunders and sequestrations , had scraped together three or four ...
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... less the exegetical influence of Grotius , and the doc- trinal ascendency of Episcopius , and who read their Bibles in the light of Plato and Plotinus , Tillotson was gradually with- drawn from the school in which his own earlier piety ...
... less the exegetical influence of Grotius , and the doc- trinal ascendency of Episcopius , and who read their Bibles in the light of Plato and Plotinus , Tillotson was gradually with- drawn from the school in which his own earlier piety ...
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... less conspicu- ously in his life than in his writings . " Of the regard which surrounded his memory , and the welcome which awaited his posthumous works , we could scarcely have a more remarkable proof than that which is afforded by the ...
... less conspicu- ously in his life than in his writings . " Of the regard which surrounded his memory , and the welcome which awaited his posthumous works , we could scarcely have a more remarkable proof than that which is afforded by the ...
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... Less justifiably , Laurence Sterne selects the words , " It is better to go to the house of mourning , than to the house of feasting ; " and exclaims , " That I deny ! " The boldest of all beginnings is a funeral sermon by Lavington of ...
... Less justifiably , Laurence Sterne selects the words , " It is better to go to the house of mourning , than to the house of feasting ; " and exclaims , " That I deny ! " The boldest of all beginnings is a funeral sermon by Lavington of ...
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Page 296 - What I've committed to His hands, Till the decisive hour. 4 Then will He own my worthless name Before His Father's face, And in the New Jerusalem Appoint my soul a place.
Page 310 - COME, let us join our cheerful songs With angels round the throne; Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, But all their joys are one. 2 ' ' Worthy the Lamb that died," they cry, "To be exalted thus!
Page 318 - JOY to the world ; -the Lord is come : Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare Him room, And heaven and nature sing. 2 Joy to the earth; the Saviour reigns: Let men their songs employ ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, Repeat the sounding joy.
Page 81 - The dew shall weep thy fall to-night, For thou must die. Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, A box where sweets compacted lie, My music shows ye have your closes, And all must die.
Page 312 - My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of thine, While like a penitent I stand And there confess my sin.
Page 290 - Then I can smile at Satan's rage, And face a frowning world. 3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, And storms of sorrow fall ; May I but safely reach my home, My God, my heaven, my all : 4 There shall I bathe my weary soul, In seas of heavenly rest, And not a wave of trouble roll Across my peaceful breast.
Page 404 - God is not a man, that he should lie;. neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
Page 273 - Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world. But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.
Page 7 - Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.
Page 319 - UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb ; Take this new treasure to thy trust, And give these sacred relics room To slumber in the silent dust. 2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds ; no mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here. While angels watch the soft repose. 3 So Jesus slept ; God's dying Son...